We’re Back! And Welcome to We Hunted the Mammoth 2.0!

We’ve moved from WordPress.com and replaced the old WordPress theme with a streamlined custom theme. And we’ve been able to implement a number of long-requested features that will make navigation easier and commenting more pleasant. In related news, the Blockquote Monster has resigned to spend more time with his family.

Moving a blog with 2471 posts and 573,557 comments (yes, really) to a new server is a messy job. We were offline for longer than we expected while we tried to get all the old content up. And we’re still sorting through issues with plugins and widgets and so on. If you notice some weirdness going on please let me know in the comments below. Or send me an email.

And let me know what you think of the new features.

HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to Tracy Bradley, who handled the redesign and the big messy move and dealt with all the technical glitches that came up. For free. Without her help the new site would look crappy and not work and my head would have exploded from frustration about a dozen times. Hire her for stuff!

Hey, my tablet has finally decided to let me see the site! It looks good! And no one will ever be able to say they didn’t see the comment policy again. I agree that the font size (especially commenter names) is really big. But it seems to load fine in mobile, when the old site frequently lagged out.

I too hope that nested comments are an error because I’d thought we agreed that we really didn’t want that feature.

Looks good, David — big and bold, like a mammotheer should. The buttons, including edit, are an especially welcome feature.

If you are looking for an inspiration for a future post, may I suggest heading over to Dalrock, where even more than usual retrograde moaning commenced after the decision to open all combat positions to women was announced.

Cuz

Like Eve in Eden, women are envious of a position they don’t have, and are grasping for that which they should not grasp.

Seconding the “Bring back top posts” — or maybe getting rid of the random post sidebar? I don’t know why it’s annoying me so much, but I’m finding it very distracting. Not that I want to erase the privileging of the glorious history of WHTM. I don’t think I’d mind so much if it was just the thread titles, and not their images.

PI — it used to just be next/previous, which got annoying when, say, a certain troll of infamy spent 17 pages on the word “vile”. Or the more common knowing you were on page two of the comments when you went to bed and then having to click previous until you got there.

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I really don’t like nested replies, just, as a rule. You either end up with it being super mammoth indented, or it being hard to tell who’s replying to what when this get started:

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I’m stuck under a cat loaf (our former stray is such a lap cat!) so I’m on my phone and the site lacks a right margin. Not the black edges, those are there, but the white main background has no right edge, no padding/margin. It’s useable as is, just really disconcerting.

I know there’s a lot of pressure to change format but don’t think this one works. Sure if you are going for commercially related blog. Happy for you if it works out and you get more hits etc. Not working on my platform at this point in time. Takes too long to load and when it does it doesn’t grab you like it used to.

Edit kicks you out if the time expires while you’re editing, just fyi. I looked at 2 other threads that were 68 and 92 comments long and both showed 2 pages for both the top and bottom page navigation. Also, when I first come into the comments, the top page navigation has 3 highlighted and the bottom has 2 highlighted. If I click on 2 in the top navigation, the page is refreshed with the same comments displayed, and if I then click on 3, that’s when it’s an empty page.

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